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The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
Rose Maybu,l,s Song.


If somebody there clianccd to he
Who loved mo in II manner true,
My heart would point him out to me,
And would point him out to you.
(Rrfcrs To book.l
But here it says of those who point,
Their manners must he ont Of joint.
You must not point :
You must not point
It's manners out of joint to point.
Had TIL" love Of such MS he,
Some quiet spot he'd take me to;
Th"n he could whisper it to me,
And could whisper it to you.
QtrfrrS I" book,
But, whispering. I've somewhere met,
Is conrnr" I" etiquette.
Where can il hr ,Scarcllcs hoOk)?
Now let me ST.. uiuding rcfcrcnce),
Yes, yes.
Its contrary To etiquette.
-Ruddygorc.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
AND nAI PINS.

Ono Stimulates with small gems In gold
setting, star md crescent, which, by the by,
is n very popular design. The other brooch
consists of n gold horseshoe with clover leaf
in tho center. This is also favorite design
Tho remaining trinkrt is bar pin set with
small b:illiants. If n lady can afford hut
ono style of pin it is advised that siio select u
brooch, rs the probabilities are that another
season the bar pin will be nearly if not
quite out of fashion
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28

A New T"t,': steam company furnishes
s.eam Iowrr through pipe, to i%5 ENGINES
from II lars2 slcan station ON Greenwich
s."c"t, The conductors OF pipes used for con-
v"yins the ''oam nro Of very large s!im,"n-
SION. The steam when delivered to tlr en-
Eili" - "l'. AM The pressure j tt'3"n: ,i.l.y
L. y .iJ itncty pounds. .-C'l.ir"so lin u
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
A Hobby for Costly Watches.

Wall street men have hobby for 81 900
watches. They have one dial for the time Of
day, and four small dials which indicate the
day of The week. the day of the month, the
month # IL" year and the quarter of the
moon. a tiny nS sounds the hours and
half Lours-New York Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
Ginger in The South

Ginger is said to succeed well in all tho
states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. hut it
has not yet been demonstrated whthcr it will
prove t" e"profital'le crop or not. a Florida
PAPER makes suggestions about the method of
cullivatins it.-CLicago Times.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28

Joncs-1lavo you family. Mr.. Smith,
Smith, have two daughters.
Jon"s-IIavc you 10 SONS!
Smith C,ishins heavilv)-I have 10 SONS to
pclpctuatc my name. 1t will die with me-
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28

Tho Now York court Of appeals has re-
affirmed Il former decision that the elevated
railroads in New York city must pay for
damages through loss Of light and air to
lremisesalopg the lines Chicago Times.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
Card Etiul,cttc,

Turning down the upper righ. hand corner
or end of n card signifies that one has called
i'll person.
A visiting card received stands for a call Of
courtesy. 1t i, acknowledged by call or by
sending ones card in return.
When making n formal call, gentleman
asks if the ladies are at home. If they are
ro:. lie may leave one card for each, or one
for all. Custom varies OH this point.
,.c:l,.,: vii soon erect n Statue I" nayun,
-'l:o w,> !.o.r there. lhc execution oi lii"
wo.!; la, hcrn intrus;el t. Natter. ''ss-
tin.,.:>hcl Aust;iah sc;:lvt"!'. c,.. a.: ,...'''
ins Will take place on May 81, Tie seventy
eighth anniversary Of tho composers death
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
MhY lie Mas There

Don't you dawnsc. Frcdt'
NO, dear boy: I'm invited out for my
facial expression. New York Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28

The brooch or round pin is fast gaining
popularity; indeed, il is now the most fash
ioahlo form of n""!, pins made, although the
lace or |, pin-,s tho long pin is vnrlously
termed 5 also i'll style. y pin to ln called II
brooch nowadays need not conform to any
regular size or form, SO long Us it is short and
broad rather than bar shaped it is brooch.
In our illustration We give three popular pat
terms in neck pins, two being brooches and
ono regular bar pin.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28

"Tlic state department has negotiated q treaty
of anity and concord with the Tonga Islands,
Washington Dispatch.
Let hostile nations ramp and roar,
tnmlzzr and loose the dogs of war
W,'r" n,w hcnceforth and forcvcrmorc
NJ l@are with the Tonga Islands;
Lat France and Spain bear naughty sway,
Let England rule with blustrous way
Give NJ, tie fish to Canada
Keep peace with the Tonga Islands.
We d" not fear the mishticst fleet
With ulil World monarchrs effete,
We challenge war, defy defeat,
At peace with the Tonga Islands;
Wherever thci are We do not know
But the mn,"t the wurl,! will doubtless show
Somewhere, between Greece and Mexico,
our friends of the Tonga Islands.
We wear our hats on the side of onr head,
We ill the world with fear and dread,
On "mr coat tail no man dare tread
We're friends of the Tonga Islands;
Sing Tink:,, T"nka, Tnnyalrnr,
Let Boston hak" the Tonga bean,
While white winged Peace will brood serene
Der lis and the Tonga Islands.
-Burdcttc in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
PROGRESS IN JAPAN.
HOW THE PEOPLE BEGAN FARMING
ON THE AMERICAN PLAN.

Manufacturing Agricultural Implements
Under Dinicultics-Trial of tho First
Plow-Thc Natives Greatly AStnn!shc.,.
Watchimsa Moving Machine at Work.
In few days l received the somewhat
startling notice that the government lad de-
t"rmined To adopt my advice. and that in n
1rw days force of native mechanics would
hc ready to work under my directions lnanll-
featuring the implements. As was no me-
chanic, and as had always thought had no
mechanical ingenuity, was in IL very serious
dilemma. To say that could not do it was
to lose all prestige. On the other hund, nn
attempt To do it would almost surely end in
failure l consulted with my American
friends and they all encouraged mo to 80
a!r;ll and do tho best | could. If there had
been models tn work from the initiative ca
lmrity of the japanese would lilvc been equal
I" tho emergency, hut we had 10 models for
The more complex and difficult implements.
However, concluded that an American
could 10 anything that anybody else had over
done anl lucc"ptcd the responsibility, though
with many nis.ivings. y small wooden
building WAS put up and divided, one-half for
a blacksmith shop and tho other half for
wood workers. started in on plows. We
had I" talk" ih" Jomnrs" imgo:s of steel, tho
same ;i~ they had made their old swords from,
am' presumably the same ns had been used to
make ih" odd Damascus blades. 1t is the best
Steel low made in the world With these
liit'' im;s';s ti!"S'' patient workers hammered
away day after day as ! Ind dire, ted until
the first rl"ws!larc was finished In the
mean time the wool workers had made tho
l"H:n AMI handles from tho old oak in tho
A"a!" rTst!H i,a;r When it had been put
t"s,iA'r the pi"w had II very respectable APP
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
PITH AND POINT.
She Had OUGHT to. Ccrtninly.

"Yes,' sail Mrs Do Hobson, "Clara had an
excellent opportunity to visit Europe last
year i'll company with some friends; but
couldn't bear the i'lea Of having the ocean bo-
tween us"
ut seems Il pity, Mrs. Hobson," responded
tho caller: n European trip docs give such
tone to IL soci"y young lady"
Il know it does To those moving in the
high circles that VIC do, it is almost n neccs-
sity. Isms"," concluded Mrs. Dc Hobson,
half rcsretfuly, that l should have let her
wcnt.'-Puck.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28
Our Allies.

"Tl,c state department has negotiated a:reaty
Of anty and concord with the Tonga Islands,
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INSECTS AS FOOD.

Farther down in the animal scale,
the insects furnish food to many saw
ages hard pressed for nourishment.
Thus the miserable Indians of Utah
and the Colorado desert, and the
Bushmen of Africa, who live in q
hot, dry open region, gather grass
hoppers, crickets, and some sorts OF
beetles, and make a meal of their
dried bodies, which they crush and
mix into sort of paste with berries
or seeds, or else they devour the in
sect raw.
AS for locusts, they are called the
"national dish" of Zambesi region
in South Africa; and are on the bill
of fare of such half-civilized people
AS the Arabians, Persians and Egyp-
tians, while their young were con-
sidered a dainty by the Romans.
The grasshopper and locust are
hard-shelled, vegetable feeders and
should inspire no more disgust than
the roasted shrimps of which New
York schoolboys used to be so fond.
When we come to the soft-body in
sects this disgust is strongly felt
yet many species are eaten by saw
ages in all parts of the world.
Thus some Africans of the Congo
country are excessively fond of the
ants that build those great, conical,
hard walled houses which form so
prominent q feature of the African
landscape. In the forests of the Am
azon also, ants are eaten, besides
white grubs, kind of moth, and
beetles.
The California Indians, especially
those of the lower peninsula, exc out
their scanty subsistence with mag
gots, young insects and spiders of
certain kinds, not hesitating even at
earthworms, out of which soup is
made-vermicelli this time with a
vengeance!- Youths Companion.
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FRO BE CONTINUED ]


A PRETTY CUsTOM.-It was pref
ty custom long ago for lovers to ex.
change rings. The gentleman did
not have to spend u months income
for a pretty trinket for which he got
no return, but he also. wore and
cherished Il souvenier from his sweet
heart. Chaucer describes heroine
as giving her lover ring on which
were engraved suitable love notices
and receiving like one in return.
SHAKESPEARE makes more than one al
lusion to this custom. In the "TWo
Gentlemen of Verona" Julia gives
Portcus ring, saying: keep you
this remembrance for thy Julia's
sake" which he replies: "Why,
then We'll make exchange; here,
take you this"
Il "gimmal" or linked ring was
then invented which gave still
greater force and significance to the
custom. 1t was made of double
and often triple link, which turned
upon q pivot. 1t could be opened,
showing three rings. A small hand
was attached to each outer ring,
which when closed, caused the hand
to clasp, inclosing heart which was
affixed to the central n0tched ring.
1t was customary to break these
rings asunder in a solemn manner
over the bible. 1t was always done
in the presence of a witness, who
kept the centre link, the betrOthed
couple reserving the two outside
links. When the marriage contract
was fulflledat the altar the three por-
tions were united and the ring used
in the ceremony.-Jeveler's Weekly.
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CLOUDS AND SUNsHINE.-Cloud-
less skies drop no rain. We may
bathe ourselves in the unclouded
sunshine for days and weeks, think
ing that if the blue of the heavens
were nevermore veiled by the black
ness of storm we at least would be
perfectly satisfied. But as the un.
clouded days pass on, the parched
earth begins to cape to heaven for
water, the flowers fade, the grass is
burned up, and men and beasts droop
in the merciless heat which now
seems no longer the messenger of
life, but the angel of death. For
need like that there it no help in
cloudless skies. The sign of deliver
ance rather comes in the thunder
cloud, the flash of lightning, and the
pouring rain. There is like need
of the rain cloud, in the inner life.
There is parching and deadening
influence even here in too much SUM-
shine; and the storm cloud of pain
or of sorrow, which drenches our
heart soil with the rain Of tears,
alone makes possible the continued
growth of that which is best in our
heart culture. We do right to thank
God for cloudless days; but we do
wrong if we do not thank him for
days not cloudless. The one gives
and the other the rain;
and without either there would be
no increase.-St7ldGy-schO0l Times.
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A SAFE HOUSE TO SLEEP IN.

A lawyer of high reputation in the
city of Philadelphia was travelling in
one of the Southern States, and be-
ing belated one evening, after long
days ride, he was compelled to turn
into house on O solitary plantation
and ask for shelter and hospitality for
the night. His request was granted.
In the course of the evening he
thought he observed something re-
served in the master of the house
which awakened his suspicious. He
was at length conducted to his cham
Der, which was adjoining the family
room. There he dwelt on the cir
cumstances that had alarmed him
till his excited imagination was fill-
ed with thoughts of nightly robbery
and assassination. He proceeded to
barricade the room as we'll he could.
He fastened down the windows !;
against the doors he piled up tables,
chairs. everything that was nova
BILE in the room. While thus en-
gagged, words uttered in a low voice
caught his ear and increased his
alarm. He placed his ear at the key
hole. The man of the house was en-
gagged in prayer-in family prayer.
Among other objects of intercession,
he was praying for the stranger
whom the providence of God had
Unexpectedly brought to lodge be-
meath their roof that night" When
he got through our travelling friend
arose from his STOPPING posture.
Imagine the change in his feelings.
All his fears had vanished. Though
no Christian himself, he knew that
the prayers Of Christians are like
guardian angels to the abode in
which they are offered up, and went
to bed and slept soundly and sweet
ly, feeling that the house where God
was feared and worshipped was a
safe house to sleep in.
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JOHN, LOVE YOU WITH MY WHOLE HEART.
"Baas Franks black horse" he muttered to
himself. "The black horse has cracked
heel and one foot hits the ground more softly
than the others. What is Baas Frank COM
ing here for? After missile Bessie, think.
He would be mad il he knew that missile went
down to the plantation with Baas Mel just
now. People 70 into plantations to kiss eaeh
other Uantje was not far out there), and it
would make Baas Frank mad if he knew
that. He would strike me if told him, or
would tell him."
The horses hoofs were getting near by
now, so Jantjo slipped as easily and naturally
as snake into thick tuft Of rank grass
that grew between the blue gums and waited.
Presently the big horse approached, and
the snake like Hottentot raised his head ever
so little and peered out with his beady black
eyes through the straw like grass stems.
They fell OH Mullers cold face. 1t was evil
dent that he was in a reflective mood-in an
angrily reflective mood.
"What is Baas Frank thinking of, Won
der!" said Jantje to himself as horse and man
passed within four feet of him. Then rising,
he crossed the road, and slipping round by
back way like fox from a covert, was
standing at the stable door with vacant and
utterly unobservant expression Of face some
seconds before the black horse and its rider
had reached the house.
~ will give them one more chance, just
one more" thought the handsome Boer, or
rather half breed for it will be remembered
that his mother was English), land if they
won't take it, then let their fate be upon
their own heads. Tomorrow / 20 to the
bymakaar at Paarde kraal to take counsel
with Paul Kruger and Pretorius, and the
other fathers of heland.' as they call them
selves. If throw in my weight against re-
bellion there will be no rebellion; if urge it
there will be. and if ON Silas will not give
me Bessie, and Bessie will not marry me,
will urge it even il it plunge the whole
country in war from the Cape TO Waterberg
Patriotism! Independence Taxes!-that is
what they all cry till they begin to believe it
themselves. Bah! those arc not the things
would 60 to war for; but ambition and re-
venge, ah! that is another thing. I would
kill them all if they stood in my way, all ex-
cept Bessie II war breaks out, who will
hold up hand to help the 'verdomde Engels-
nlannf They would all be afraid. And it
is not my fault. Can help it if love that
wonans l would slaughter every English
man in the Transvaal to gain Bessie-ay!
and every Boer, too, and throw oil tho ma
tives in" and he laughed aloud and struck
the great black horse, making it plunge and
caper gallantly.
"And then," he went OIL, giving his am
bition wing, "when I have got Bessie, and
we have kicked all thes, Englishmen out of
the land, in a very few years shall rule this
country; and what nexts Why, then 1 will
stir up the Dutch feeling in Natal and in the
old colony, and we will push the Englishmen
back into the sea, make clean sweep of the
natives, only keeping enough for servants,
and have q united South Africa, like that
poor silly man Burgers used to prate of, but
did not know how to bring about. A united
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crippled and blind, bad been placed
by some kind souls in this asylum.
AS he grew more feeble and nearer
the end, old memories woke with
him.
"If I could only see the house
where my mither lived!" he would
complain perpetually. "If I could
throw my line in Tay again" J"
AS time passed, this homesickness
grew intolerable. He gabbled all day
of his home, and woke from his sleep
crying out familiar names.
"If it were possible for him to bear
the voyage" said the superintendent
to some visitors one day, sit would
only be right to send him and let
him die in his native village"
One of the visitors was q gay
young fellow of the town, with a
kind heart under his folly. He lis
tened with dim eyes while Sandy
talked of the glory of his regiment.
"They'll be going hame soon.
You'll hear the bands play as they
march down the street, a. the auld
lulCS- IGOy WIG al 1uC Soih y
bells are Comin',' an the girls'll rim
out, an the Bonnie children, an
they'll a. be there but meW
The young man asked q question
as they left the room.
"He will hardly last till mid
night" was the answer of the ply
sician.
At dusk that evening one of the
best orchestras Of stringed instru-
ments in the city quietly entered the
garden of the asylum, took their
places beneath the windows, and be-
gan to play. The dying old man
raised himselfin bed. whats that?
Young Lochinvar?' Hark! Be
still! THE Campbells are Comm !"
It's the regiment comm hame-the
regiment-to Scotlandw
"The music rose higher. 1t was
an old martial strain of triumph, to
which he had marched many a day.
He threw off the clothes, and stood
on the floor trembling, his arms
raised high.
"It's the regiment! We're at
hame! We're a. at hame!"
They caught him as he fell. Sandy
was at Youths Companion.
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LOWER THAN THE BEAsTs.-Try
to give a dog whisky to drink and
YOU will see him shudder with fear
and run away. A rabbit which was
given one spoonful of whisky every
day, for the sake of experiment, died
in a few days with terrible cramps
in the stomach. Place good micro
scope over a drop of water and you
will see hundreds of little animals
living and swimming Justify and
cheerfully in it, but put the same in
strument over drop of whisky and
you will find no life whatever, death
reigning there. Then mix them to-
gether and you will witness the
following spectacle: The poor ami
malcule, lively and cheerful though
they were but moment before, at
once begin to move about frantl-
cally: they are taken with spasms,
with which they suffer little while
until death relieves them. Hence
YOU may realize the nature of whisky
and the horror which Nature herself
has instilled in every creature against
it. But what are these in compari-
son with the susceptibility of the hu-
man body to the ruinous effects of
alcoholic drinks, the traces of which
are often and Enthusiastically found
in the different disorders of the stom-
ach and bowels, the heart, the liver,
thekidneys, the throat and the larynx
the brain, the skin, the five senses
and the mind itself! Who can tell the
amount of trouble pain and misery
caused by only one of these atflic-
tions? How terribly ruined and de-
formed by drink is the human body,
the most noble work in the whole of
Gods visible world, that "temple
of the Holy Ghost" as the great st.
Paul has grandly styled it! A short
time ago 1 saw eight representations
of a mans stomach laid open and
affected with those disorders of which
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THE INDIAN JUNGLE.

The Indian jungle has never been
adequately described. There are dis
tricts where it is almost terrible in
its wildness of savage luxuriance,
where masses of dark and poisonous
trees are knitted into an impenetra-
BILE shade by the shaky creepers,
and the fever in the hot, moist air
seems like a visible evil genius, an
Aura, lurking to slay its victims, as
the leopard does on the branch of
the black saltree, and the cobra under
the beautiful, deadly blossoms of the
datura.. And, again, there are tracks
of delightful wilderness in India,
where no plow has touched the ster-
lie, yet lovely landscape since its
levels were laid. 70 wander here on
the smooth sand and rock, between
clumps of self-planted oarunda and
jujube; to taste the pure, warm air
sighing across it's maidans, to follow
the shadowed holloWs and painted
banks of the nullah, and come sud-
denly upon the lonely jheel, full Of
crimson and blue lotuses and crowd
ed by waterbirds, is the pleasantest
of lonely wandering. In these nat
ural and delicious sOlitudes of Asia,
which have never known the hand
scarcely even the foot-of man, the
spirit of the dreamy, placid, meta
physical East seems to brood over
the silence Of that spirit which Shell
ly embodies in the "Prometheus
Unbound"
Asia thou Light Of Life !
Shadow of beauty unbeheld!
In these wild gardens Of the great
peninsula you may study also as you
roam all the classical objects of Aryan
natural history, as the Mahabhara
and "Kalidasa" describe them. The
kohl will utter its futelike notes
from the thicket; the peacocks break
from the kusa grass storm of green,
and purple and gold, the sand-grouse
whose cry is heard before the bird is
visible in the sky, skins to the pool,
where the white egrets and the
cranes are stalking, and over which
the "fish-tiger" hovers; the bird
hawks for butterflies; "the nine Sis
ters" chatter in the thorn-bushes the.
antelope file across the plain and, as
evening falls you hear the chakurand
chakri, which live on moonbeams,
and which only death can separate;
cheeping to the rising crescent;
while the jackals steal out to find
their food, and the flying foxes un-
hook their leathern pinions from the
neem tree and scream as they launch
themselves on the dusk air to plum
der the distant village fruit-groves.